Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance

Chloé Déchery is a performance-make, writer, pedagogue and Lecturer in theater and performance studies at the University of Paris 8 in Saint-Denis, France. Her research interests include everyday corporeality and embodiment; authorship and creative labour; the atmospheric turn and eco-feminism in performance. She is the co-director of Performer Les Savoirs (Performing Knowledge) a research programme and curatorial platform. Recent publications include Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance: A Duet Without You and Practice as Research (ed); Artist.es-Chercheur.es, Chercheur.es-Artistes, Performer Les Savoirs (eds. Marion Boudier, ArTeC/les presses du réel, 2022) and theatre journals Documents-Matériaux, in thaêtre [online], Chantier #7, (eds. Marion Boudier), 2022 and Staging Atmospheres: Theatre and the Atmospheric Turn, volumes 1 and 2 (eds. Marion Martin Welton), ambiances [online], issues 6 and 7, 2020 and 2021. Atmosphères en scène : le théâtre à l’ère du tournant atmosphérique. www.chloedechery.com

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Foreword

Introduction: The Making of A Duet Without You: Working With and Without Others in the Neo-Liberal Performance Context – Chloé Déchery



PART ONE: A DUET WITHOUT YOU

1. A Duet Without You: The Performance Score – Chloé Déchery, Pedro Inês, Simone Kenyon, Deborah Pearson and Michael Pinchbeck



PART TWO: CRITICAL WRITING AND PRACTICE AS RESEARCH: THE COLLABORATORS’ INSIGHTS ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS

2. A Dance of Absence: (In)visible Dramaturgies within A Duet Without You – Michael Pinchbeck

3. On Friendship and Collaboration – Deborah Pearson

4. Distance and Occupation: Notes on the Recorded Voice – Tom Parkinson

5. Staging Absence and the (Un)Making of Memory in A Duet Without You – Chloé Déchery



PART THREE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND PERFORMING THEORY AROUND A DUET WITHOUT YOU

6. An Invitation to Dance: Chloé Déchery’s A Duet Without You – Mary Paterson

7. Folding and Unfolding: A Close Listening to Chloé Déchery’s A Duet Without You – Karen Christopher

8. Absence: Chloé Déchery’s A Duet Without You and Marguerite Duras – Clare Finburgh Delijani

9. An Electronic Conversation on Bridges, Pregnancies, Bookends and Encountering Histories – Diana Damian Martin and Chloé Déchery



Coda, On Blue – Chloé Déchery



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